Metroglobal - Document 8 - Arbitration under Resource Constraint - Civilized Settlement of Competing Claims in Value-Creating Systems

Human value creation operates under conditions of limited resources, competing claims, and irreversible consequences. As value creation scales across value chains, jurisdictions, and time, conflicts over admissible use become unavoidable. This document introduces arbitration as a necessary civilizational function for resolving incompatible claims over limited resources through recognized decision mechanisms rather than unilateral action or escalation. Arbitration is required not because facts are unavailable, but because factual knowledge alone does not constrain action and may accelerate irreversible outcomes. The document treats arbitration primarily as a recurring social behavior, and institutions of arbitration as stabilized expressions of this behavior, necessary for maintaining cooperation, legitimacy, and long-term system viability under constraint. Metroglobal Document 8 extends the Metroglobal framework by addressing the conditions under which competing claims over limited resources can be settled without system degradation, complementing earlier documents on facthood, responsibility, viability, taxation, and value-network coordination.